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{"ops":[{"insert":"We work in the dark to serve the light."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nEtrata gives us value by allowing all of our assassin's to cloak cards from the top of our opponents' decks to give us board presence. Then, she lets us not only flip cloaked creatures, but cloaked instants and sorceries as well. She gives us value for committing to an active gameplay of applying pressure through attacking, but also lets us pull off sneaky plays if we cloak something particularly powerful from an opponent's deck.\n\nThe deck is composed primarily of low CMC assassins, assassin and combat support pieces, cost reducers for uncloaking, and effects that turn cloaked creatures into assassins. This spread lets us apply pressure early and often to try to win with an evasive board of cloaked creatures and assassins.\n\nPower 🎚️: Bracket 2\nAssassin's don't have very strong support or representation even after the AC set release. The strategy of swarming the field with 2/2s through combat damage is inherently low on the power scale. Your strategy is also very telegraphed and relies a good amount on Etrata being on the field,. None of that means that the deck isn't a blast to pilot and it can absolutely have some super cool and powerful plays! It is an extremely cool, flavorful, and fun deck --just understand that it slots cleanly into bracket 2 and is unlikely to be able to consistently hang in a pod of 3s.\n\nTable Salt 🧂: 3.5/5\nThis deck plays quite \"fairly\" (strategy is telegraphed, disruptable with removal, and is combat-focused), but players that dislike theft effects may hate it on principle.\n\nDifficulty 🧑🏻✈️: 4/5\nExpect to continuously look around the board thinking about who to attack and how likely they are to block. Once you have a stack of cloaked cards, they will become like an extension of your hand which opens a lot of potential possibilities and plays.\n\nGeneral gameplay flow:\n\nEarly turns play assassins. Play Etrata only when an assassin has the opportunity to hit another player to cloak a card. \n⬇️\nMid game play assassin support to keep pressuring damage. Consider uncloaking lands to ramp or uncloaking powerful and impactful creatures.\n⬇️\nEnd the game with a wide board through an evasion or \"your creatures gain the assassin creature type\" effects.\n\n"}]}
Commander
Etrata, Deadly Fugitive
Deathtouch
Face-down creatures you control have ": Turn this creature face up. If you can't, exile it, then you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost."
Whenever an Assassin you control deals combat damage to an opponent, cloak the top card of that player's library.
Face-down creatures you control have ": Turn this creature face up. If you can't, exile it, then you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost."
Whenever an Assassin you control deals combat damage to an opponent, cloak the top card of that player's library.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Assassin
Commander
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Assassin
Achilles Davenport
Freerunning (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Other Assassins you control get +1/+1.
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Other Assassins you control get +1/+1.
Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
Leyline of Transformation
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Lydia Frye
Lydia Frye can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.
At the beginning of your end step, surveil X, where X is the number of tapped Assassins you control. (Look at the top X cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
At the beginning of your end step, surveil X, where X is the number of tapped Assassins you control. (Look at the top X cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
Unstoppable Slasher
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up.
When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up.
When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.
Creature - Zombie Assassin
Assassin
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Cloak Combo
Cloak Combo
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Discount
The Enigma Jewel
The Enigma Jewel enters tapped.
: Add . Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
Craft with four or more nonlands with activated abilities (, Exile this artifact, Exile the four or more from among other permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
: Add . Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
Craft with four or more nonlands with activated abilities (, Exile this artifact, Exile the four or more from among other permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
Legendary Artifact
Discount
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Double
Spark Double
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.
Creature - Illusion
Double
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Draw
Adrestia
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Adrestia attacks, if an Assassin crewed it this turn, draw a card. Adrestia becomes an Assassin in addition to its other types until end of turn.
Crew 1
Whenever Adrestia attacks, if an Assassin crewed it this turn, draw a card. Adrestia becomes an Assassin in addition to its other types until end of turn.
Crew 1
Legendary Artifact - Vehicle
Basim Ibn Ishaq
Whenever you cast a historic spell, draw a card. Basim Ibn Ishaq can't be blocked this turn. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Whenever Basim Ibn Ishaq deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Whenever Basim Ibn Ishaq deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
Black Market Connections
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Evie Frye
Partner with Jacob Frye (When this creature enters, target player may put Jacob into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
, : Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a creature card this way, target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.
, : Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a creature card this way, target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
Mari, the Killing Quill
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it with a hit counter on it.
Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile. If you do, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens."
Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile. If you do, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens."
Legendary Creature - Vampire Assassin
Roshan, Hidden Magister
Other creatures you control are Assassins in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
Face-down creatures you control have menace.
Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Face-down creatures you control have menace.
Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
Draw
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Evasion
Evasion
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Interaction
Etrata, the Silencer
Etrata can't be blocked.
Whenever Etrata deals combat damage to a player, exile target creature that player controls and put a hit counter on that card. That player loses the game if they own three or more exiled cards with hit counters on them. Etrata's owner shuffles Etrata into their library.
Whenever Etrata deals combat damage to a player, exile target creature that player controls and put a hit counter on that card. That player loses the game if they own three or more exiled cards with hit counters on them. Etrata's owner shuffles Etrata into their library.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Assassin
Interaction
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Land
Demolition Field
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, , Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
, , Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Spymaster's Vault
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add .
, : Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
: Add .
, : Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Land
Land
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Protection
Become Anonymous
Exile target nontoken creature you own and the top two cards of your library in a face-down pile, shuffle that pile, then cloak those cards. They enter tapped. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward . Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Instant
Protection
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Ramp
Ramp
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Recursion
Jacob Frye
Partner with Evie Frye (When this creature enters, target player may put Evie into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Whenever one or more Assassins you control deal combat damage to a player, exile up to one target Assassin card or card with freerunning from your graveyard. If you do, copy it. You may cast the copy.
Whenever one or more Assassins you control deal combat damage to a player, exile up to one target Assassin card or card with freerunning from your graveyard. If you do, copy it. You may cast the copy.
Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
Recursion
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Redundancy
Orochi Soul-Reaver
Ninjutsu (, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Creature - Rogue Snake Ninja
Redundancy
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Maybeboard
Cryptic Coat
When this Equipment enters, cloak the top card of your library, then attach this Equipment to it. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward . Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked.
: Return this Equipment to its owner's hand.
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked.
: Return this Equipment to its owner's hand.
Artifact - Equipment
Ghastly Conscription
Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard in a face-down pile, shuffle that pile, then manifest those cards. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Sorcery
Meathook Massacre II
When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice.
Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Legendary Enchantment
Primordial Mist
At the beginning of your end step, you may manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Exile a face-down permanent you control face up: You may play that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)
Exile a face-down permanent you control face up: You may play that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)
Enchantment
Ravenloft Adventurer
When this creature enters, you take the initiative.
If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it.
Whenever this creature attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.
If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it.
Whenever this creature attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.
Creature - Human Rogue Assassin
Reno and Rude
Menace
Whenever Reno and Rude deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library. Then you may sacrifice another creature or artifact. If you do, you may play the exiled card this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.
Whenever Reno and Rude deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library. Then you may sacrifice another creature or artifact. If you do, you may play the exiled card this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.
Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
Rogue Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library face down. You may look at it for as long as it remains exiled.
: Level 2
Creatures you control have menace.
: Level 3
You may play cards exiled with this Class, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library face down. You may look at it for as long as it remains exiled.
: Level 2
Creatures you control have menace.
: Level 3
You may play cards exiled with this Class, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
Enchantment - Class
Silumgar Assassin
Creatures with power greater than this creature's power can't block it.
Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When this creature is turned face up, destroy target creature with power 3 or less an opponent controls.
Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When this creature is turned face up, destroy target creature with power 3 or less an opponent controls.
Creature - Human Assassin
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
: Tap another target creature.
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
: Tap another target creature.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
The Revelations of Ezio
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Destroy target tapped creature an opponent controls.
II — Whenever an Assassin you control attacks this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
III — Return target Assassin creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
I — Destroy target tapped creature an opponent controls.
II — Whenever an Assassin you control attacks this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
III — Return target Assassin creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
Enchantment - Saga
They Came from the Pipes
When this enchantment enters, manifest dread twice. (To manifest dread, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Whenever a face-down creature you control enters, draw a card.
Whenever a face-down creature you control enters, draw a card.
Enchantment
Thieving Amalgam
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Whenever a creature you control but don't own dies, its owner loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Whenever a creature you control but don't own dies, its owner loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Ape Snake
Maybeboard
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Tokens & Extras
A Mysterious Creature
You can cover a face-down creature with this reminder card. A face-down creature that was cloaked or cast with disguise has ward . (Whenever that creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays .)
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